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 Veerpal’s
in-laws ready to accept her
Bathinda, May 30
Another twist was added to the
story of Ms Veerpal Kaur, a resident of the district, who was
allegedly deserted by her NRI husband, when her in-laws today refuted
the allegations of dowry demand and said they were ready to accept her
in the family.
(From left) Ms Harpal Kaur, mother, and Ms Balwinder Kaur, sister, of Mr Napinder Singh at a press conference in Bathinda on Friday.
— Tribune photo Kulbir Beera
Dalit
fears threat to life in Haryana
Dadwan (Dhariwal), May 30
Mr Harbans Singh, a Dalit youth
from this village, feels insecure even in the presence of security
guards, provided to him by the Gurdaspur police on the directives of
the Punjab and Haryana High Court, whenever he attempts to go to
Haryana to collect his cash and gold ornaments.
Ex-Dean
threatened me: VC
Patiala, May 30
Punjabi University
Vice-Chancellor Swarn Singh Boparai today accused a former Dean and
senior university teacher, Dr Dalbir Singh Dhillon, of threatening him
during a meeting with him yesterday and told the teacher that he would
not be able to grant an audience to him in future.
DENTAL COLLEGE
ADMISSION RACKET
Police
gets university records
Mansa, May 30
The case pertaining to the
admission racket in Khalsa Dental College, Nangal Kalan, took a new
turn after the police succeeded in obtaining the records of Punjabi
University relating to the admissions in the BDS course after making
efforts to get the same for four years.
Cong
leader’s call to party workers
Faridkot, May 30
Mr Bal Mukand Sharma,
vice-president, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) and former
minister, has exhorted party workers and leaders to sink their
differences to strengthen the party at the grassroots level.
PSEB
to save Rs 350 cr: Ratra
Amritsar, May 30
The Chairman of the Punjab State
Electricity Board, Mr Y.S. Ratra, has said that the Board will save Rs
350 crore during the current year on account of improved efficiency
and cutting down losses.
‘Raju
exploited Cable TV operators’
Amritsar, May 30
The Cable TV Operators Welfare
associations today criticised the statements of Dolly, wife of Mr
Sarabjit Singh Raju alleged prime accused in the multi-crore sex
scandal scam.
Police
remand for electrical inspector
Patiala, May 30
A local court today remanded
Punjab Chief Electrical Inspector Tirlok Nath Sharma in police custody
till June 4.
Sex
racket: Chawla for CBI probe
Amritsar, May 30
“Shakti” an organisation of
women has come to the help of the women victims of sex scandal.
President of the organisation Mrs Lakshmi Kanta Chawla told newsmen
that with the unearthing of the sex and extortion racket has brought
into focus the plight of poor girls who became victims of machinations
of the rich and the powerful who exploit them for business.
Report
filed to rights panel in bribe case
Malerkotla, May 30
The state Vigilance Bureau has
submitted its report to the Punjab State Human Rights Commission
regarding the bribe money demanded by a doctor of the local Civil
Hospital for the treatment of a patient.
Mann
to meet Aziz
Phagwara, May 30
Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, MP,
president, SAD (A) will soon meet the Pakistan High Commissioner
designate, Mr Aziz Ahmed Khan. He said our party hoped that one day
the Sikhs would directly deal with Pakistan diplomatically through
Wagah without Delhi’s meddling.
NGOs
urged to check female foeticide
Fatehgarh Sahib, May 30
“Sex ratio in the state is a
matter of concern and it is all the more alarming in the district,
which has 751 females for every 1,000 males between the age group of
0-6, where as the ratio of state is 783, which is lowest in the
country,” said Ms Daisy Walia, district president of the Association
for Social Health in India, while addressing a seminar organised by
the association to create social and health awareness among women.
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Illumination
of 12 km of road is company’s centenary gift
Ropar, May 30
As a novel gift to the
people of the area and its employees Asron-based multinational
company DSM Anti Infectives India on its 101st anniversary has
decided to provide street-light on the 12 km stretch of the
Ropar-Nawanshahr road from Ropar headworks to Paniali village. |
Survey
to identify physically challenged
Fatehgarh Sahib, May 30
The District Red Cross Society
has initiated a special survey to identify the physically challenged
in the district to provide them artificial limbs, tricycles, hearing
aids and the other equipment to make them self- dependent, said Mr S.K.
Ahluwalia, Deputy Commissioner.
33
pc seats for women in village poll
Faridkot, May 30
The district administration here
has reserved 33 per cent seats for women, including that of Scheduled
Castes category for sarpanches in 181 gram panchayats in Faridkot
district.
CSIO
Director opens conference
Fatehgarh Sahib, May 30
Dr R.P. Bajpai, Director, Central
Scientific Industrial Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh, inaugurated
a two-day national-level conference on “Open Source Software and
Technologies — Bridging the digital divide” at Baba Banda Singh
Bahadur Engineering College here today.
BKU
(E) to hold dharnas
Bathinda, May 30
The Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta)
said today that it would hold dharnas against the anti-farmer policies
of the Punjab Government, under which farmers of various villages were
being arrested for not repaying the loans taken from agricultural
development banks.
On
alkaline water for seven years
Faridkot, May 30
As many as 8000 residents of
Beehlewala and Maansingh Wala in this district have been drinking
alkaline water for the past seven years. Three filters of water works
at Beehlewala village constructed 25 years back, got damaged in 1996.
8-hr
power supply for paddy transplantation
Patiala, May 30
The Punjab State Electricity
Board (PSEB) has decided to start eight-hour uninterrupted power
supply to Bathinda, Ferozepore, Faridkot, Muktsar and Amritsar
districts from tomorrow to facilitate the early transplantation of
paddy in these districts.
Poor
seeds for contract farmers
Bathinda, May 30
Mr Ajmer Singh Lakhowal, state
president of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Lakhowal), said here on
Wednesday the seeds being supplied to a section of farmers under the
contract farming scheme were of poor quality.
Kashyap,
Lakhanpal leave for USA
FCI
official arrested
Bathinda, May 30
The Vigilance Bureau today
arrested Gurjant Singh, a Technical Assistant of the FCI, posted at
Kotkapura, for accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from rice mill owners.
Murder
accused kills self, body found
Bathinda, May 30
Bhushan, a resident of Rampura
town of the district, who was an accused of murdering
one-and-half-year-old son of his friend, committed suicide and his
body has been found from a distributary near Lehra Bega village.
PCMS
opposes medical teachers on contract
Chandigarh May, 30
Terming the Punjab government’s
move to fill 400 vacant posts of teachers in various medical colleges
in the state on contract basis as unjustified, the Punjab Civil
Medical Services (PCMS) Association has said that this would go
against the interest of the patients as well as medical education.
SHO
‘beats up’ student leaders
Sangrur, May 30
Leaders of the Punjab Radical
Students Union (PRSU), led by Sanjiv Mintoo, state secretary of the
union, today met the Sangrur SDM here and demanded strict action
against the Bhawanigarh SHO Sukhminder Singh for keeping allegedly
Bahal Singh and Harbans Sonu, leaders of the PRSU, in “illegal”
custody last night and “beating up” them.
US
scholarship for SLIET student
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